Tony Salami

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@thinking_panda A YouTuber did a detailed analysis of the COVID-19 timeline 4 years ago.

https://t.co/B9NKTfDHDx

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@ShangguanJiewen There's no totally secular country in the world. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

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@lido_tops30276 @CarlZha Ok, now I can confirm I'm replying to a bot. Case closed.

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@ShangYang2 @CarlZha I think you're missing the point. The point is that 楚庄王 has the wisdom to come up with the idiom "止戈为武" despite him misinterpreting the origin of the character "武" at the time. Carl's post is written from the perspective of the king, so he's not wrong either.

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@boobdex @CarlZha @keanfei47 @grok @grok what does "自导自演" mean?

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@lido_tops30276 @CarlZha Funny you say that while the current regime (DPP) in Taiwan is erasing Taiwanese history by claiming that Japanese are their ancestors.

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@ShangYang2 @CarlZha I think you're missing the point. The point is that 楚庄王 has the wisdom to come up with the idiom "止戈为武" despite him misinterpreting the origin of the character "武" at the time. Carl's post is written from the perspective of the king, so he's not wrong either.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Chinese idiom 止戈为武 is a reference to a 2600 yr old quote by my ancestor, King Zhuang of Chu 楚庄王 who led Chu army to crush the army of Jin state, the hegemon of the Spring & Autumn Period in the battle of Bi 邲之战 in 597BC.

His advisors suggested that they build a pyramid of heads 京观 of fallen Jin soldiers to display for martial prowess for posterity. King Chuang responded the character 武 (Martial) is made up of 止 (stop) and 戈 (dagger-axe). The highest martial virtue is to stop wars. Jin solders died honorably to implement their lord's orders, they committed no crimes, they don't deserved to have their bodies desecrated.

King Zhuang went on to be the greatest King of Chu, becoming the new hegemon of Chinese states.

300 yrs later in 306BC, Chu crushed the Yue state and annexed all of Yue territory from Shandong peninsula down to Qiantang river north of present-day Hangzhou.

According to Song Dynasty book 百家姓 "book of hundred names", a Chu royal prince was enfeoffed on a captured Yue land called Zha. His fief Zha became the family name of his descendants. That's the origin of my family Zha of Haining 海宁查氏.

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@baoshaoshan I'm envious. Didn't get the chance to visit this massive, beautiful airport the last time I was in Beijing. :(

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@zhao_dashuai "Pivot Back Home." That sounds too much like Obama's "Pivot To Asia". Trump's not gonna like that.

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@peclemz @ShangguanJiewen Where do you think tap water comes from? 🤡

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@iloveparadise_ @CarlZha This is what feminism should've been all about. Not the fake ass feminism that belittles the other gender to uplift themselves.

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@Solomon12836191 @zhao_dashuai That's the US. BTW, how's the anti-grav tech going? Is it already in development or only lives in PPT slides?

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@fawzy_hakim @zhao_dashuai However, I disagree with the article regarding Vietnam allying with the US strategically. Vietnam is a much more sovereign country than the Philippines. It knows engaging in a hot war with its neighbor would be fatal. Why would they do that for the US' sake?

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@hdlnii @zhao_dashuai 你可以在 YouTube 上搜 “館長惡名昭彰”。台湾的最大网红，没有之一。对台湾年轻人的影响力很大。

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@fawzy_hakim @zhao_dashuai I'm an overseas Chinese and I'd like to thank you for sharing this piece of article. It has certainly helped me to understand the history of my motherland better.

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@nunosix151000 @zhao_dashuai With what money?

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@JZ281C @zhao_dashuai Bro actually figured it all out.

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@KIKI3165003 @zhao_dashuai 不要小看键盘侠。舆论战也是一种战争。西方的洗脑就是慢慢地从你没意识到开始的。

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@Fred97757949769 @zhao_dashuai Sorry, who are you again?